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The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth…
The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and privileges that are comprised in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and priviledges that are comprized in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...
London: printed by Edward Mottershed for Adoniram Byfield, 1661
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2. Your standing or continuing in the Covenant, doth not depend upon your own 1strength, nor doth God leave you unto that, but it doth depend on his strength, and on his power, Ephes. 3. 16. That he would grant you (according to the riches of his grace) to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, Mic. 4. 5. We will walk in the Name of the Lord our God for ever and ever, Zach. 10. 12. I will strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord: Though your strength be insufficient, yet the strength of your God and of your Christ is sufficient for you. 1 Pet. 1. 5. We are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. 2 Cor. 12. 9. My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
- 1Our standing doth not depend upon our own strength.
3. The Lord is able to keep you from falling, and to preserve you faultless before 1the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, Jude ver. 24. Nay and he will keep you from falling: Wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, Psal. 56. 13. Thou hast delivered my feet from falling,